The Alabama Gun deer season starts the 20th of this month, I have been waiting soooo long. I got buckfever real bad. I was just wondering if there were any other forum members from Alabama, or that will be hunting in our great state this year. Anyhow, good luck to everyone this year.

Good luck to you, Matt - hope you get a sack full of them! :D

I live in the Pensacola area but belong to a hunting club just outside of Brewton Ala. Don't know how many times that I will make it up to the club to hunt this season because it's also hog season on management land in Fla.(Escambia River WMA) I have been seeing allot of deer up at the club especially at my honey hole which I have planted with Biologic. I mostly belong to the club to hunt crows and call yotes. It's also a place that I can ATV. I might go up Tues. or Wed.(ML season starts tomorrow thru the 19th)-----GOOD HUNTIN'----pruhdlr

Ooooooooooooooooooohhhhhh yeah!!!!! Here and ready to go! My better half ain't real happy about it, but so be it. After all, it ain't like i'd spend all day in the woods. Well, not all day every day, anyway............well heck yes i would!

Ooooooooooooooooooohhhhhh yeah!!!!! Here and ready to go! My better half ain't real happy about it, but so be it. After all, it ain't like i'd spend all day in the woods. Well, not all day every day, anyway............well heck yes i would!


They'll never know what hit 'em. :D

Opening day in the Escambia River (Fla.) WMA was perfect WX. Wind was coming out of the north and it never changed all day. It stayed at about 10 kts. My wife and a huntin' buddy and I walked the west side of the river til we started seeing some great sign. We split up and headed inland as far as the Ivan devistation would allow us to. There was allot of backwater so we ended up gittin' wet. We were pistol hunting. Me with my Casull,the wife with her 32 H&R Mag. and my friend with his 10MM, shootin them old origional Black Talons. I started seeing hog dropings the size of golf balls. Finally I saw his tracks. BIG HOG !! We all saw fresh wallows,beds,tracks,and my wife saw a black blur tearing through the Palmettos. Nobody got a shot but I will be back in that same spot til dark tomorrow PM. I will put out some scent that I get from Boar Hunter Magazine about 1400---sunset is at 1650----that ought to give em time to drop in for a visit. Haven't had a hog make it past my Casull yet. Good luck to the rest of you SouthEast hunters out there.----STACK EM UP----pruhdlr

Went back to the same spot that we saw all the hog sign the other day. It was a workday so nobody could hunt with me cuz they had to go to work(ugh!!!) The wind was out of the SW so I had to run up river past the spot that was real piggy lookin. Parked the boat and took my time gittin my huntin stuff together and on. This usually lets things settle down. If the hogs are up close to the bank and they run inland this will give them time to filter back towards the river. The WX was cool so I knew that they could be feedin during the day. When I started out walkin downstream into the wind it was right at 10:00 AM. Temp was about 60 deg. When I got about 300 yds. downstream to where the backwater comes to within 40 yds. of the river I started seeing some real fresh rootin. I backed off aways and sat down with my shootin stick ajusted and my Casull in my lap. After about a half an hour i thought that i herd water splashing. I was wearing my Walker's power muffs and I turned them up to max volume. Something was in the backwater. From where i was sittin I could see the water moveing but couldn't see any animals. I holstered my Casull,folded the shootin stick, abandoned my backpack,and started moving up through the sparce clumps of Saw Palmettos. After about 20 yds. I could see several hogs almost swimming through the backwater. The first three were pretty small but the next in line was so-so. The wind was in my favor so I moved to the left to where I could see where they was gonna come ashore. I saw two out of the first three come ashore(don't know where the other small hog went) and was ready when the bigger one set foot on the bank. The bigger hog stopped to shake off(same as deer or dogs do) and i let her have one on the shoulder. She was almost perfectlly broadside to me and the bullet (300 gr.CSJ from Cast performance, Moly coated) hit and shattered the near shoulder.Pieces of shoulder took the top of both lungs and a small part of the top of the heart. The bullet exited just forward of the far side shoulder.The hog took a giant leap forward then fell back into the backwater. The other two smaller hogs were gone(no idea where or which way)in a flash. I gutted the sow and drug her to the river bank.Then I went back to get my boat. I always carry a scale in the boat and she weighed(field dressed) 142 lbs. The other smaller hogs were about 40-50 lbs. I iced her down in a very large cooler when I got home and put most of her into sausage and will save out about 20 lbs for the smoker. Of course while cuttin her up my wife and I cooked one of the tenderloins in a very hot cast iron skillet with garlic butter and salt and pepper. Thats a must do item. Will give the area a little while to "rest" and will go back next week. The sign that I saw in that area had to be more than that bunch.And I know that there is at least one big boar in the area.-----Good Huntin to all you SouthEasterners---HANG EM UP----pruhdlr

Sounds like a fun hunt and that you did everything just as you should have done. Congratulaltions! :D

The extreme NW Fla. hunting has been not so good lately. The WX hasn't been very good plus the woods and waterways have all been changed by Ivan. We can still get on the river but the added ammount of rain that we got over the last couple of weeks sure didn't help the situation any. We are supposed to get another 2-3 inches today plus very strong winds out of the south. I got my permit ($40.) for Eglin AFB the other day so we will give that a try tomorrow. It is a huge area but there is allot of rules and regs. for diffrent parts of the reservation. There seems to be allot of dog hunting areas,surrounded by stalk hunt areas. I don't know how this will work out but we are willing to give it a chance. The seasons aren't nearly as long as the WMA's either. The general gun season is only for 4 days this first time so we will mostly do some "GPS scouting".We will try to get as far as possible off the access roads to try to avoid the other hunters and their dogs. I have herd and read stories about the size of some of the hogs on Eglin and the big ones are 350+ pounds. I still need a wall hanger. Good luck to all you SE hunters.--- HANG EM UP----pruhdlr

Got another one. Hog that is. Got this last one on Eglin AFB in NW Fla. I figured that the swamp is so tore up that I'd give Eglin a look. $40. gets you a permit to hunt the base. Gazillion acres. Almost half of that is dog areas.(you can use dogs to hunt deer,hogs,and some birds in season) Not a hole heck of allot of hunters for the size of area. Mostly potlicker chasers. That's ok,they chase the hogs down in the bottoms in the non-dog areas. Shot the hog about 1655 Sun. He was heading up to the ridgetop to feed in the White Oaks. Shot him from the ajacent ridge(about 240-250 yds.) with my 7 Mag. shootin' 140gr Nosler Partition handloads,out of my Browning Stainless Stalker. (FINE,FINE, GUN) He field dressed at 95 lbs. Could only see him at that range and that late with my Leupold 4X12 zoomed back to 6X. It's not the first time for that. I used to use it for yotes in Maine.(with 115gr Speers) The 140's are going about 3200 and i used to shoot the Speers at 3600. Both are kick a$$ loads.---- Good luck to all you SE hunters----HANG EM UP----pruhdlr

Bought a brand new Ruger M77 in 7mm Mag back in 1972 when my Win Mod 70 Super Grade .300 H&H went south on me. Used the Ruger for years and years as the primary rifle on everything from antelope to elk. 162 grain Nosler Partitions were the preferred bullet and loaded to 3,000 fps +-. Today, it seems to like the 140 grainers better (?) and still gets use from time to time. A truly fine cartridge.